Manufacturer: Syracuse China
User: Camp Merrie-Woode
Date of examples: 1958

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Notes: Camp Merrie-Woode on Lake Fairfield in Sapphire, North Carolina, was founded in 1919 as Lake Fairfield Camp by Marjorie Harrison, an English professor from Tazewell, Virginia. In 1922, it was purchased by Mabel Pye Day, a leader in the girls camping movement with the YWCA in New York, and by Mary Turk, who had been Lake Fairfield Camp's head counselor. The camp is still open today (2025), and here is a link to its website.

An article about Merrie-Woode that appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times dated Mar. 26, 1922, states: "It is one of the most splendidly built camps in the entire county, surpassing many of the well-known camps of the north. It was formerly known as Lake Fairfield camp and was built two years ago by Miss Marjorie Harrison, former director." … In February it was sold to Mrs. Jonathan C. Day of New York, and Miss Mary Huston Turk, of Virginia.

"The camp lies at the head of Lake Fairfield, nestled against the hillside, with one of the country's most beautiful waterfalls within a stone's throw of the main building. The forests of rhododendron and pine trees and the mountains rising in friendly beauty on every side combine to make a perfect setting. A large lodge, built of logs with porches on every side, is the main building, a huge fireplace in which a fire is needed every night and morning adding greatly to its attractiveness. Along the margin of the lake are twenty-five tiny, frame-built lodges, enclosed halfway up and provided with canvas curtains so that in case of rain they may be completely closed. There are several other buildings including and infirmary, offices, guesthouse, boathouse and stables, thus making the camp a complete community within itself.

"Merrie-Woode is distinctly a camp with ideals. It was founded with a high purpose – the purpose of recreating body, mind and heart under conditions and through activities that are an open highway to the spirit of youth."

Tan body china with Syracuse's Econo-Rim, which is outlined in a medium bright green. At the top of the plate, coming down the verge and into the well is the camp's logo of a green-lined rectangle with the word "Camp" in the top box with a triangular tree on each side. In the left middle box is a drawing of two figures on the lake's dock and on the right middle box is a drawing of a figure standing next to a horse. In the bottom box of the grid are the words "Merrie Woode."

Sources:
Asheville Citizen-Times dated Mar. 26, 1922 – story about the camp's origin
Camp Merrie-Woode website

Contributors:
Cory Glisson-Munier: ID and china photos
Ed Phillips: author